... and I thought I made that clear:
The weighting - of course -
is still that he's not such a good guy: having focused on destroying
Android.
Focusing on destroying Android was just one example of
many.
I merely said he gains a little of my respect because it really
does appear he was deliberately a little helpful to Society. Notice I don't say
he was generous.
Generosity - in my humble opinion - is defined
as:
giving more then you can afford to give
And I seriously doubt he
ever did that.
I used to be generous - to the point I didn't make a car
loan payment because I helped someone else. I seriously doubt Jobs was ever
generous in that sense. I also wouldn't at all be surprised if the average
donation people who earn up to $150,000 make was well above the average
donation of what Jobs made relative to his earnings.
And.... as little of
my respect as he has earned with the current disclosure, it would be completely
lost if it was also disclosed his donations were along the lines of The Gates
Foundation "donations". In other words, if it turned out Jobs donations were
investments and not actually donations.
I respected him far more in the
begining when you could actually buy the parts of the Apple computer and build
it yourself. Programming the software on it that you wanted. Sadly, things
changed with that platform and it's EULA.
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